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the amount of slop saying "wait till the end" is too damn high (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23555611

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

"Wait for it" - I'm like... bitch, why don't you just add some fast forwarding to the vid, or just cut out the unimportant parts?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Because the tube is all about watchtime and engagement. Engagement includes any interaction with the video, such as comments and downvotes.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The wild part is, at least on tiktok, downvoting or selecting "not interested" seems to give me MORE of that content. It's as if leaving the video on your screen for longer is giving that video more points in the algo than your expressed disinterest. What works better (on tiktok) is to scroll away with the minimum amount of time spent looking at the video.

Makes me appreciate when there's a big message in the first second that says "wait until the end!" I swipe so fast when I see that. Otherwise I might have to wait to hear what they're doing in this video, which would boost them in the algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ugh, this is even worse now, since the dislikes are hidden.

[+] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those are only using the ratio of likes and disliles of the users using those extensions.

So it can bias in a way that, say (this is an example, idk if this is true), the users of the extension are more "anti-windows" than the general population. So a video on the announcement of a new Windows release, would show as having more dislikes since the ratio of people who dislike Windows is higher.

(That's how I understand the extension anyway, correct me if I'm wrong)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I’d also add DeArrow to remove clickbait thumbnails and titles, and Untrap to completely modify nearly everything, such as removing (hiding, really) shorts, like count, view count, comments altogether, even hiding the subscribe button among many other options.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Depending on your browser, you can look for a “bring back the dislikes” extension. There are usually a few.

Really the only way to make an impact on a video you dislike is to watch as little as possible and do not interact at all. Leave no comment or like/dislike.

Which really sucks, because information like # of dislikes and informative comments are the only real way to determine if the content is worth the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

At least on youtube you can skip ahead. But whenever i see these caption or those very obnoxiously descriptive short, i'll hit downvote and content like these won't shows up as much.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

The short video version of “you gotta watch this show I love. Just suffer through the first 12 seasons and it gets SO GOOD!”

[–] isles 3 points 2 months ago

It's as if their incentives (increased view time) drive behavior

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

If they could spell it correctly, it'd be better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

"Read that again"

Fuck you, I wish I could unread it from the first time.

[–] Thcdenton 2 points 2 months ago

I get very little of this since i disabled youtube history

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Op also used those words so should we down vote them?